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I remember a while back you were talking about writing funk but I think you definately are returning to form and it's entertaining just reading the reviews more and more.
A Star is Born (1954) - Blu-ray Disc (DigiBook)
***/**** Image A Sound A Extras B starring Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Tom Noonan screenplay by Moss Hart, based on the screenplay by Dorothy Parker & Alan Campbell & Robert Carson directed by George Cukor by Walter Chaw A big, giant mess of a movie, big, giant mess of a directo...
Howard I don't think understands.
Like Walter said any given scene has less potency because there is less resonant art happening.
The energy created by music and visuals is it's own paradigm that can achieve emotions and convey things that only that type of combo can trigger.
And the depth is a lot more personal when experiencing such a smooth marriage of the mediums. There's levels to it. A regular scene is level one, maybe two if it's special, but with everything symbiotically connected the sum becomes greater than it's parts and sends you to a special place of smoothness.
I don't think that's the reason Wes Anderson died, just one of them.
Also his style was a one trick pony which has since become irrelevant with the evolution of cinema and entertainment in general.
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
**/**** starring Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Edward Norton, Tony Revolori written and directed by Wes Anderson by Walter Chaw I'd be hard-pressed to think of many sequences in the movies better than the two minutes from Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums where Richie gets picked up at t...
Nice try, but you can't just write yourself out depression.
Gotta smoke blunts. THEN write.
(While listening to music)
Telluride '13: An Introduction or, The Stand
by Walter Chaw It's a six-and-a-half hour drive from my home in Arvada, CO to Telluride on the Western Slope, and there are two ways to get there. One way is all highway; the other way is all beauty. I took the second route, and it made all the difference. I've been in a dark, difficult place...
Looking forward to watching it now because of this review.
Computer Chess (2013)
****/**** starring Patrick Riester, Myles Page, James Curry, Robin Schwartz written and directed by Andrew Bujalski by Walter Chaw Sneakily, the best science-fiction film of the summer is Andrew "Godfather of Mumblecore" Bujalski's decidedly lo-fi Computer Chess, shot with a late-'60s, made-...
Lold hard at
"The money, though, is incidental to the glory of scientific discovery, of being the first to push the limits of artificial intelligence to the point of...what? Aggression? Sentience, perhaps? "
for some reason.
Computer Chess (2013)
****/**** starring Patrick Riester, Myles Page, James Curry, Robin Schwartz written and directed by Andrew Bujalski by Walter Chaw Sneakily, the best science-fiction film of the summer is Andrew "Godfather of Mumblecore" Bujalski's decidedly lo-fi Computer Chess, shot with a late-'60s, made-...
Thank you Jesus!!
The Master (2012) - Blu-ray Disc
****/**** Image A Sound A Extras A- starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Laura Dern written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson click any image to enlarge by Walter Chaw Of all the recognizable and memorable phrases that John Keats contributed to the English langua...
I hope you realize that the BEE Twitter account is a parody account and you just got trolled hard by one of the best writers of all time. He's almost Walter Chaw status.
Zero Dark Thirty (2012) - Combo Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
***½/**** Image A- Sound A+ Extras C starring Jessica Chastain, Jennifer Ehle, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler screenplay by Mark Boal directed by Kathryn Bigelow click any image to enlarge by Angelo Muredda As of this writing, the latest wannabe tastemaker to thumb his nose at Zero Dark Thirty ...
That's interesting that he tried to act like a gorrilla. I can see it now. And that's a big metaphor for being as alpha as he was in this. Essentially those subliminals are direct communications of our humanity. Sometimes I watch videos of bonobos on YouTube and other primates and I see parallels between human behavior and the origins of our evolution. It's like studying the secrets of the depth of humans beyond the conscious mind. The primal things primates do connect to the evolved consciousness of a human but they both come from a similar place except (most) humans become self aware and primates don't as much so theres a certain naturalness to those primal mannerisms. It's a huge key to why he came across so alpha, moreso than any of his other films I think, even ones from around the same time. It's maybe because he was trying to do that.
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - Two-Disc Special Edition DVD + Blu-ray Disc
****/**** DVD - Image A Sound A Extras A+ BLU-RAY Image B+ Sound A+ Extras A+ starring Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden screenplay by Tennessee Williams, based on his play directed by Elia Kazan by Walter Chaw Marlon Brando is liquid sex in A Streetcar Named Desire, molte...
I spent the whole second half waiting for Thor to power up Ironman with lightning like when they were dueling but it never happened :(
Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
The Avengers **½/**** starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Samuel L. Jackson screenplay by Joss Whedon directed by Joss Whedon by Walter Chaw Joss Whedon delivers his definitive artistic statement with the completely inoffensive, agreeably stupid Marvel's The Avengers. It's a...
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